CAMBODIA: The Neutral Harvest

Of all Southeast Asia's neutralists, none
has made the art pay better than Cambodia's unpredictable chief of
state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 37. Since 1955 Sihanouk has extracted
$290 million in aid from the U.S., $22 million from France, $23 million
from Red China, and perhaps $12 million from Russia. To keep himself
from being compromised, Sihanouk, after each Western gift, generally
scampers off to Peking or Moscow for an offsetting Red handout. Last
week, in a dazzling display of diplomatic virtuosity, Sihanouk unveiled
a second rule of aidmanship: always bite the hand that feeds you.